By GottaLaff
“Embryonic stem cell research is taking the concept of taking a life and using it to conduct experiments so we can temporarily extend somebody else’s life. Let me tell you what I just described. I just described what the Nazis did to the Jews in the death camps of WWII,” says Coleman.
By GottaLaff
The Obama administration Wednesday approved the first human embryonic stem cells for experiments by federally funded scientists under a new policy designed to dramatically expand government support for one of the most promising but also most contentious fields of biomedical research.
The National Institutes of Health authorized 11 lines of cells produced by scientists at the Children's Hospital in Boston and two lines created by researchers at the Rockefeller University in New York. All were obtained from embryos left over by couples seeking treatment for infertility.
This is where the word "hope" really hits home for me. My mother died of Alzheimer's exactly one year ago. 'Nuff said.
Oh, and in case nobody noticed, President Obama kept a campaign promise:
President Obama fulfilled a campaign promise in March by signing an executive order lifting the Bush restrictions and ordering the NIH to develop guidelines to decide which lines could be ethically used. In a political compromise, the guidelines finalized in July limited funding to lines created from excess fertility clinic embryos as long as they were deemed to have been obtained ethically. The lines have to meet a strict set of criteria, such as making sure couples were not offered any financial incentives, knew the embryos would be destroyed for research and were offered the option of instead donating the embryos to other couples.Together now, kids, let's hit the big blue button!
By GottaLaff
Enter Big Pharma...BRITISH scientists have developed the world’s first stem cell therapy to cure the most common cause of blindness. Surgeons predict it will become a routine, one-hour procedure that will be generally available in six or seven years’ time.
The treatment involves replacing a layer of degenerated cells with new ones created from embryonic stem cells. It was pioneered by scientists and surgeons from the Institute of Ophthalmology at University College London and Moorfields eye hospital.
This week Pfizer, the world’s largest pharmaceutical research company, will announce its financial backing to bring the therapy to patients.
I'm pretty eh over the "outrage". These are the same people who have conniption fits every spring over the Vagina Monologues and pretend like little Josh and Jen O'Malley save themselves for marriage. You want to be treated like a serious institution of higher learning, you've got to start acting like one.
Considering how totally out of touch the Roman Catholic Church has been lately, I'm putting my money on President Obama.The White House announcement on Friday that President Obama will deliver the commencement address at the University of Notre Dame has triggered a firestorm among conservative Catholics. They're miffed over the prestigious Catholic school's invitation to Obama because his stances on abortion rights, gay rights, and embryonic stem cell research are at odds with church teaching.
The Cardinal Newman Society, dedicated to promoting orthodoxy on Catholic campuses, has launched the website notredamescandal.com to protest the school's invitation. Its petition drive netted more than 13,000 signatures over the weekend. The school has apparently been flooded with phone calls from angry Catholics. And the conservative Catholic blogosphere is aflame with criticism of Notre Dame's administration.
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From a political perspective, the big question for the coming days is who is more discredited by the protest: a president eager to promote the Democratic Party's faith-friendly ways or the Catholics who are looking to deny the leader of the free world—and a popular one, at that—a college commencement address.
By GottaLaff
Seems Georgia's definition of "pro-life" differs from many of ours... and President Obama's:
A Senate panel today approved a bill that would ban the creation or destruction of an embryo for embryonic stem cell research.You can still study and research stem cell lines, see. You just can't use a Georgia embryo, or create one, for that research.
The move comes on the same day that President Barack Obama lifted limits on using federal dollars for such studies.
Critics say the bill would hinder embryonic stem cell research, and harm the biotech industry.
Supporters say it would protect human life in its earliest form.
Yeah Science!!! Great thanks to FDL for the vid.
Yeah Science!!!
ABC News has learned that on Monday morning President Obama will hold an event at the White House in which he signs an executive order overturning the ban on federal funding of embryonic stem cell research.
The announcement will be about "restoring scientific integrity to health care policy," an administration official tells ABC News.
In August 2001, President George W. Bush signed an executive order banning federal funding on embryonic stem cell research except for a few dozen lines that were grandfathered in. The White House at the time estimated scientists would have more than 60 cell lines to use, but ultimately fewer than two dozen lines were usable.
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